It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all – that is our motto, is it not?
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
And now,′ said the unknown, ’farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven’s substitute to recompense the good – now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Ah,” said the jailer, “do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
People in general,” he said, “only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.
Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.